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The Empty Mirror (1996)

Name: The Empty Mirror
Director: Barry J. Hershey
Genre: Drama, Mental health, Surrealism, War
Released: 1996
Duration: 118 min
Cast: Norman Rodway, Camilla Søeberg, Peter Michael Goetz, Doug McKeon, Joel Grey

1996 · Barry J. Hershey · 118 min · United States of America

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Adolf Hitler faces himself and must come to terms with his infamous career in an imaginary post-war subterranean bunker where he reviews historical films, dictates his memoirs and encounters Eva Braun, Josef Goebbels, Hermann Göring and Sigmund Freud.

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The Empty Mirror (1996)

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